Grant      son 

By 
John  P.  Swift 


GRANT  &  WILSON. 


Speech  of  the  Hon.  John  F.  Swift, 

Delivered  at  Platl's  Hall,  July  9th,  1872. 

[From  the  Daily  AI/TA,  July  10th.] 


The  first  regular  campaign  speech  In  favor  of  the  elec- 
tion of  Grant  and  Wilson  to  the  offices  of  President  and 
Vice-President  of  the  United  States  was  made  last  even- 
Ing  In  Plan's  Hall.  The  Interest  and  enthusiasm  mani- 
fested on  the  occasion  well  showed  that  the  Republican 
party  Is  not  only  still  alive  bnt  strong  in  its  power.  The 
principles  on  which  it  in  based  are  deeply  rooted,  and  the 
people  cannot  fall  to  recognize  them  as  sound  and  invin- 
cible. The  hall  last  evening  was  densely  filled  In  every 
pdrt.  In  the  gallery  were  many  ladies  with  escorts. 
The  band  played  stirring  music,  and  the  multitude  looked 
np  with  expectant  faces,  anticipating  an  oratorical  treat 
and  feast  of  reason  that  was  sure  to  follow. 

There  is  a  peculiar  significance  in  the  fact  that  such 
men  as  the  Hon.  John  F.  Swift  are  taking  the  lead  in  ex- 
pressing popular  sentiment  in  times  of  great  political 
agitation.  It  is  a  significant  fact  that  men  of  sound  prin- 
ciples and  high  intellectual  culture,  based  on  their  own 
individual  efforts  for  self-improvement  and  their  ambi- 
tion to  be  men  of  influence  and  character,  should  forego 
the  luxury  of  ease  and  retirement  for  the  sake  of  public 
cplrit  and  to  satisfy  a  burning  zeal  to  accomplish  a  public 
good.  Such  men,  as  the  exponents  and  guiding  influences 
of  a  party,  indicate  the  strength  and  intrinsic  worth  that 
bring  them  to  the  surface  of  public  opinion,  and  seem  to 
fix  our  confidence  in  the  ultimate  results  of  our  political 
•overnment.  The  tone  of  a  party  is  even  far  more  influ- 
ential and  Indicative  of  its  real  character  than  the  specific 
•Iterances  of  its  platforms  and  professed  principles.  Mr. 
Swift  is  a  representative  American,  self-made  and  of 
great  culture  and  experience.  As  such,  with  progressive 
Ideas  based  on  a  platform  of  sound,  social  and  political 
principles,  he  is  a  worthy  exponent  of  the  Republican 
party. 

At  a  quarter  past  eight  o'clock  the  meeting  was  called 
to  order  by  Marcus  D.  Boruck,  Esq.,  who  nominated 
Hon.  J.  B.  Southard  as  President  of  the  evening.  This 
announcement  was  erected  with  applause,  and  the  nomi- 
matkm  was  accepted  unanimously.  Taking  the  stand, 
ike  President  t poke  In  a  very  animated  manner  as  follows: 


Introductory  Remark*. 

FELLOW  CITIZENS:  The  time  is  approaching  when  the 
people  of  this  country  will  be  called  upon  to  select  In- 
cumbents for  the  two  highest  offices  in  the  gift  of  the 
people.  Recently,  at  Philadelphia,  with  an  unanimity 
almost  unparalleled,  the  representatives  of  the  great  Re- 
publican party  of  the  United  States,  placed  in  nomina- 
tion General  Grant  [great  applause]  and  Henry  Wilson  of 
Massachusetts,  [renewed  and  prolonged  applause.]  That 
nomination  has  been  endorsed  by  the  Republicans 
throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land.  [Ap- 
plause.] We  stand  to-day  united  and  determined  that 
success  shall  crown  that  grand  old  party  and  the  grand 
old  leaders  we  have  presented  for  your  ap- 
proval. [Applause.]  But  I  must  not  trench 
upon  the  time  devoted  to  the  hearing  of  the  issues  of  the 
campaign,  discussed  by  the  eloquent  and  able  gentleman 
who  is  about  to  address  you;  he  who  has  at  all  tlm«s 
been  found  up  at  work  and  in  earnest,  in  order  that  the 
principles  of  our  great  party  should  be  firmly  established. 
There  need  be  no  fear.  Never  were  the  prospects  of 
this  party  so  auspicious  as  at  the  present  hour.  [Ap- 
plause.] Why,  fellow  citizens,  is  it  expected  that  the 
Republicans  will  be  so  mean  and  despicable  as  to  turn 
their  backs  [cries  of  "Never!"]  upon  the  hero  that 
saved  the  country  and  then  the  party  to  which 
they  belong?  [Cries  of  "Never!"  "Never!"  "Never!"  and 
applause.]  The  Savior  of  the  country:  General  Grant! 
[Great  applause  and  cheering.]  The  Savior  of  the  Repub- 
lican party:  General  Grant!  [Renewed  applause.]  Four 
years  ago,  you  will  bear  me  witness,  from  the  pretudlces 
existing  in  the  minds  of  the  people  of  the  United  States 
against  negro  suffrage,  nothing  but  his  great  name, 
nothing  but  the  great  victories  and  the  laurels  that  he 
had  achieved  could  carry  the  Republican  party  through 
and  drag  negro  suffrage  with  it.  [Cries  of  "  That's  so,"' 
and  applause.]  What  do  you  owe  to  him?  I  need  not 
rehearse  the  history  of  the  campaigns  through  which  he 
has  passed.  The  first  victories  for  the  Union  in  the 


Retxjllion,  and  the  last  one  at  Richmond,  crown  him 
to-day  cblef  In  the  hearts  of  the  American  people. 
[Tremendous  and  prolonged  applause.] 

Fellow  citizens:  I  will  not  detain  yon  longer.  I  have 
the  honor — excuse  me,  If  there  IB  any  other  proposition. 

Mr.  Marcus  D.  Bonick  came  forward  and  nominated 
the  following  list  of  Vice- Presidents  and  Secretaries,  who 
were  elected  by  the  unanimous  voice  of  the  meeting: 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Hon.  Frank  Soulg,  Ralph  0.  Harrison,  D.  B.  Northrop, 
Captain  James  Wells,  J.  W.  Foard,  W.  J.  Wler,  W.  A. 
Macondray,  D.  B.  Arrowsmith,  Robert  White,  0.  H. 
West,  Dr.  J.  E.  Kunckler,  J.  T.  Flnney,  John  L.  Prior, 
George  Shwartz,  J.  L.  Howell,  T.  J.  L.  Smiley,  L.  M. 
Manzer,  I.  D.  Barnard,  WIHUhn  A.  Jones,  Robert  Irwin, 
R.  J.  Canfleld,  Samuel  H.  Jones,  H.  W.  Bylngton, 
R.  A.  James,  Hon.  William  ri.  Sears,  C.  Wit- 
tram,  A.  8.  Wentworth,  William  H.  Mitchell,  Captain 
R.  C.  Macy,  J.  P.  Dyer,  Timothy  Sargent,  D.  Marcuccl, 
William  N.  Smith,  H.  J.  Graham,  Major  Harvey  Lake, 
Abraham  Warner.  Fred.  Siebe,  James  H.  Withington, 
William  Robinson,  Alexander  Buswell,  D.  B.  Brown,  W. 
C.  Dougherty,  George  C.  Parkinson,  Robert  Silvey, 
William  Robinson,  Richard  Harrold,  J.  C.  Sargent, 
Richard  Anthony,  R.  F.  Bunker,  Hon.  W.  E.  Lovett. 

SECRETARIES. 

Edward  Fitzgerald,  William  Bailsman. 

Mr.  Southard — I  now  have  the  honor  of  Introducing  to 
you  ladies  and  gentlemen,  the  Hon.  John  F.  Swift,  of 
San  Francisco. 

Mr.  Swift  came  forward  amid  great  applause. 

SPEECH  OF  HON.  JOHN  F.  SWIFT. 

MR.  PRESIDENT  AND  LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN:  The 
most  striking,  and  perhaps  the  most  useful  feature  of 
modern  governmental  science  is  to  be  found  In  the  ten- 
tendency  of  free  States  to  come  under  the  control  of  po- 
litical parties.  Indeed  it  has  come  to  be  an  axiom,  that 
without  the  existence  of  such  opposing  organizations  it 
is  doubtful  whether  free  government  can  long  exist. 

Political    Partle* 

Have  come  to  be  the  imperial  rulers  of  Republics;  and 
lor  a  people  to  be  secure  in  their  rights  there  must  be 
two  of  these  as  nearly  equally  balanced  as  possible  In 
virtue,  In  patriotism,  and  in  power.  A  greater  number 
than  two,  they  cease  to  be  parties  and  degenerate 
Into  mere  factions— as  Is  the  case  in  France  and 
In  Spain,  and  anarchy  it  the  almost  inevitable 
result.  Happy,  indeed,  la  that  nation,  whose  pros- 
perity is  secured  and  whose  liberties  are  guarded  by 
the  watchful  lealousy  and  the  sleepless  vigilance 
of  two  nearly  equally  balanced  antagonistic,  high- 
spirited,  unselfish  and  patriotic  political  parties. 
[Applause.]  This  was  the  fortunate  condition  of  this 
country  in  a  large  portion  of  Its  earlier  history,  and  it  is 
perhaps  the  fortunate  condition  of  Great  Britain  to-day. 
It  Is  our  misfortune  Just  at  this  particular  Juncture  of 
time  that  one  of  our  political  parties  has,  through  Its  own 
misconduct,  lost  the  power  of  being  of  substantial  ser- 
vice to  the  country;  and  it  is  by  no  means  the  smallest 
part  of  that  misfortune,  that  having  lost  Its  power  of  be- 
ing useful,  having  lost  the  confidence  of  the  nation,  it 
still  clings  to  existence,  and  clogs  and  hampers  the  wheels 
of  progress  by  Its  worthless  and  superfluous  carcass. 
[Applause.]  It  Is  a  mournful  and  melancholy 
tact  in  the  history  of  this  nation,  that  the  Democratic 
party,  after  having  substantially  ruled  the  destinies 
of  this  nation  for  half  a  century,  after  having  thoroughly 
Identified  itself  with  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  first  free 
State  of  modern  times,  was  at  last  seized  upon  by  a  fit  of 
uncontrollable  and  almost  unaccountable  frenzy  and 
turned  against  its  own  name  and  principles,  like 
Satnrn,  devouring  his  children,  becoming  a  party  to  an 
avowed  conspiracy,  having  for  its  object  the 
dismemberment  of  the  nation,  the  destruction 
of  the  Republic  and  the  establishment  of  a 
slave  empire  upon  its  ruins.  This  treason  of  the 
Democratic  party  is  a  disaster  from  which  the  nation 
cannot  recover  while  that  organization  continues  to  ex- 
ist; for  by  that  act  it  not  only  deprived  the  nation  of  the 
benefit  and  nervices  of  one  of  Hi  political  rulers,  bnt  cast 


upon  the  Republican  party  the  perilous  trust  of  absotaU 
power.  The  country  needs  the  emulation  of  two  nearly 
equally  balanced  parties;  and  this  it  cannot  have  while 
one  of  these  parties  stands  before  the  great  mass  of  th« 
nation  discredited,  condemned  and  disgraced.  To  be  of 
substantial  benefit  to  the  country  the  competition  between 
them  should  be  for  preeminence  in  patriotism,  in  vlrtne, 
in  breadth  and  comprehensiveness  of  views,  and  not  a 
mean  and  narrow  squabble  over  offices  and  power,  or  a 
sullen,  opposition  to  every  measure  coming  from 
the  other  side  without  justice  and  without  Judgment. 
This,  sir,  is  the  function  of  a  great  political  party.  The 
Democratic  party  has  lost  the  nower  of  performing  It. 
And  it  follows  from  this  as  a  consequence,  that  when  that 
decayed  and  worthless  organization  passes  away  from 
earth  and  ceases  to  exist,  that  new  parties  may  be  formed 
upon  issues  that  wl'.l  be  of  genuine  and  substantial  ser- 
vice to  the  nation  and  to  mankind  at  large.  And 
every  act  that  tends  In  the  slightest  degree  to 
postpone  that  period  for  so  much  as  a  single  day,  Is  noth- 
ing short  of  absolute  national  disaster.  Every  year  since 
the  war  was  finished — yes,  every  day  since  the  war  was 
terminated — this  nation  has  repeated  its  final  decree  that 
never  again  would  It  put  confidence  in  that  party  which 
has  been  false  to  its  trust.  [Cries  of  "Hear!"  "Hear!" 
and  applause.] 

A  thousand,  millions  I  might  almost  say,  of  intelligent 
and  patriotic  thinkers,  have  counted  upon  each  election 
as  being  the  last  struggle  they  w  mid  be  called  upon  to 
make  with  their  old  enemy.  And  yet  It  has  so  fallen  out 
that  upon  every  occasion  something  has  occurred  to 
postpone  the  expected  result  for  another  year,  always,  I 
think  to  the  disaster  of  the  country,  always  to  its  injury; 
because  we  can  have  no  real  or  general  prosperity,  politi- 
cally, at  least,  until  the  country  is  divided  into  two  par- 
ties, each  of  which  can  be  safely  entrusted  with  the  des- 
tinies of  this  republic,  and  each  of  which  will  have  the  con- 
fidence of  men  who  love  their  country.  [Applause.]  In  the 
present  instance,  the  ambition  of  a  few  men,  perhaps  the 
ambition  of  one  man,  has  been  enough  to  bring  about 
this  misfortune  again  ;  and  still  the  party  that  has  been 
faithful  finds  it  is  obliged  to  occupy  the  field  alone, 
finding  no  party  confronting  it  which  can  be  safely 
intrusted  with  the  affairs  of  the  nation. 

A  Certain  Number  of  tieatlt- men, 

Of  more  or  less  standing  In  the  party,  acting  upon  the 
ground  of  a  real  or  pretended  personal  dislike  to  General 
Grant,  and  without  awaiting  the  action  of  the  National 
Convention  of  the  party,  have  conspired  with  our 
opponents  once  more  and  have  put  into  the  field  a  ticket 
for  President  and  Vice-President  which  they  hope 
to  see  elected,  and  which,  if  It  be  elected,  must 
be  made  successful  by  the  help  of  a  small  and  insignifi- 
cant minority  of  disaffected  Republicans  Joined  to  the 
great  mass  of  the  Democrat*.  These  gentlemen 
avow  and  declare  that  for  the  object  of  wreaking  their 
vengeance  upon  General  Grant,  they  are  willing  to  accept 
the  consequences  of  endowing  with  life  and  of  galvan- 
izing this  corpse  of  the  Democratic  party  once  more 
into  existence.  Because  any  reasonable  man  knows  that 
while  Greeley  and  Brown  are  being  elected,  although  they 
may  call  themselves  Republicans — and  of  their  Republi- 
canism I  have  here  no  word  of  comment — yet  at  the 
very  same  election,  and  by  the  very  same 
act  every  sensible  man  knows  full  well  that  the  Governors 
of  States,  the  Members  of  Congress,  the  Senators  of  the 
United  States,  and  in  fact  all  the  officers,  general  and 
municipal,  tbroughont  the  land,  mnst  pass  Into  the 
hands  of  the  Democratic  party.  Therefore  I  assume  that 
these  men  know  full  well  that  if  they  are  successful  In 
Kheir  efforts,  we  shall  have  most  substantially  turned  over 
this  country  to  the  control  and  domination  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  once  more.  This,  perhaps,  Is  the  first  Presi- 
dential election  in  the  whole  history  of  the  country  that 
has  been  carried  on  npon  the 

One  Single  I»«ne  of  Personal    Hostility. 

To  one  man.  In  such  a  contest  it  follows  that  all  ordi- 
nary arguments  are  lost  sight  of.  For,  where  men  have 
from  the  first  resolved,  at  all  hazards,  to  rule  or  ruin, 
reason  is  put  quite  out  of  the  question,  and  facts 
and  arguments  are  thrown  aside  as  Inconvenient. 
Woald  these  dissatisfied  gentlemen  llstem  to  DM,  I  ceuH 


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bring  to  their  view  a  record  of  achievements  during  the 
last  eleven  years  of  Republican  rule,  and  especially  dur- 
ing the  last  three  years  of  General  Grant's  administra- 
tion, of  which  any  political  party  In  the  world  might  be 
Justly  proud.  Would  they  listen  to  me,  sir,  I  could  show 
them  the  glorious  achievements  of  the  Republi- 
can party.  I  could  show  them  how  in  the 
dark  and  terrible  hour  of  disaster,  brought  on  by  the  con- 
spiracies of  the  Democracy,  this  party  which  we 
represent  stepped  forward,  as  has  been  said  truthfully, 
at  Philadelphia,  with  lofty  courage,  and  accepted  the 
duties  of  the  time.  For  all  these  things  ar«  true. 

We   Have   SnppreMed  a    Gigantic  Rebellion. 

We  have  emancipated  four  million  slaves.  [Great 
applause.]  We  have  decreed  the  equal  citizenship  of 
all;  and  we  have  established  universal  suffrage,  [great 
applause]  with  a  standard  of  magnanimity  never  before 
exhibited  In  the  whole  history  of  human  achievements. 
No  man  has  been  punished,  capitallv,  for  a  political 
•fffence,  while  all  are  warmly  welcomed  who  are  able  to 
demonstrate  their  loyalty  by  fair  dealing  toward  their 
neighbors  and  obedience  to  the  laws. 

It  has  put  down  with  a  firm  and  vigorous  hand  the  re- 
sulting disorders  growing  out  of  a  great  war;  and  at  the 
same  time  it  has  instituted  a  wise  and  peaceful  policy, 
based  upon  Christian  charity  and  human  kindness  to- 
ward the  Indian  tribes.  It  has  fulfilled  its  pledges  made 
to  the  country  by  causing  the  construction  of  the  great 
Pacific  Railroad  in  the  most  speedy  manner  possible.  It 
has  enacted  and  carried  out  a  noble  American  homestead 
system,  by  giving  away  the  public  lands  to  actual  sel- 
lers, without  money  and  without  price.  [Applause].  It 
has  encouraged  and  protected  immigration,  and  it  has 
demanded  of  the  European  powers  the  fullest  and  the 
most  complete  recognition  of  the  right  of  every  man  to 
choose  his  owa  nationality,  and  select  his  own  home. 
[Applause] .  During  the  three  years  of 

General  Grant'*  Administration, 

The  National  credit  has  been  thoroughly  sustained;  In- 
dustry and  commerce  have  been  revived  in  every  depart- 
ment  throughout  the  land;  and  while  taxation  has  been 
materially  diminished,  the  National  debt  has  been  re- 
duced at  the  steady  and  enormous  rate  of  over  one  hundred 
millions  of  dollars  during  every  year  of  General  Grant's 
administration,  and  at  the  same  time  a  great  financial 
crisis  has  been  avoided,  while  peace  and  plenty  have  pre- 
vailed throughout  the  land.  And  while  all  of  these 
things  have  been  in  course  of  accomplishment,  our 
foreign  difficulties  have  been  peacefully  and  honorably 
harmonized,  and  the  power  and  prestige  and  Influ- 
ence of  the  Union  maintained  at  a  lofty  standard  all 
around  the  globe.  [Applause.]  All  of  these  things  could 
I  bring  to  the  notice  of  these  dissatisfied  gentlemen;  and 
could  prove  them,  because  they  are  true.  But  they  don't 
want  to  hear  them.  And,  sir,  they  don't  want  to  hear 
them  simply  because  they  redound  to  the  credit  of  a  man 
against  whom  they  have  already  resolved  to  bring  to  bear 
every  force  that  malice  can  suggest  or  malignancy  devise. 
"Anybody  to  beat  Grant!"  Any  story  to  injure  him; 
any  libel  to  damage  him;  any  subterfuge  to  thrust  him 
aside.  This  is  not  a  new  cry.  It  is  only  new  in  the 
mouths  of  the  men  who  now  use  it.  We  have  heard  it 
years  ago.  We  heard  It  from  Donelson,  when  Floyd 
was  beleaguered  by  the  army  of  Grant.  [Applause.] 
We  heard  it  again  at  Vicksburg  and  Chlckamanga. 
And  from  Richmond,  a  thousand  times,  came  the  cry  : 
"Anybody  to  beat  Grant !"  Now,  sir,  we  hear  it  for  the 
first  time  from  those  men  who  at  that  time  Joined  really 
or  under  some  sort  of  pretence  in  action  or  sympathy 
with  him.  I  do  not  know  how  to  explain  it  or  to  account 
for  It.  How  successful  or  how  unsuccessful  this 
movement  may  prove,  sir,  I  do  not  pretend  to  predict. 

I  Am  Not  a  Prophet 

And  do  not  hazard  any  prediction  whatever.  It  is 
enough  for  me  to  say,  as  my  solemn  and  honest  conviction, 
that  a  bad  cause  Is  not  redeemed  or  made  better,  but  is 
•Imply  made  more  diabolically  wicked,  by  the 
fact  that  It  succeeds.  [Applause.]  And  as  one  word  of 
warning  to  these  gentlemen ,  let  me  say  that  they  must 
»et  latter  themselves  with  the  idea  that  they  can,  as 


Republicans,  succeed  In  this  monstrous  conspiracy 
against  their  party  and  still  remain  Republicans:  for  in 
that  they  will  surely  fall.  [Applause.] 

Mr.  Greeley  May  Entertain  the   Idea 

That  he  can  gain  the  tremendous  pinnacle  of  his  lofty 
ambitions  and  there  rule  a  fit  and  just  successor  of 
Abraham  Lincoln,  and  govern  this  land  as  a 
Republican  President,  elected  by  Republican  votes, 
urging  Republican  ideas,  executing  and  enforcing  Re- 
publican measures  and  laws,  and  drawing  about  himself, 
in  association  and  In  counsel,  men  who  believe  In  the 
justice  of  those  measures.  But  he,  likewise,  1. 
most  surely  doomed  to  disappointment.  Sir,  the  day 
of  his  Inauguration — If  by  any  misfortune  to  this  land 
he  should  be  elected — will  date  the  commencement  of  hU 
leadership  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  his  association 
and  companionship  with  Democrats,  and  with  Democrats 
alone.  We  are  told  that  the  grandest  scheme  of  ambition 
on  the  part  of  the  Evil  One  was  to  make  his  way  out  01 
the  place  of  torment  assigned  to  him  by  the  Most  High 
to  search  up  and  down  through  the  boundless  realms  of 
space  to  seek  out  the  newly-created  world  to  enter  into 
the  Garden  of  Eden  and  pull  down  and  destroy  the 
human  family. 

And  Milton  Tells  TTs, 

After  having  accomplished  this,  after  having  seduced 
man  to  his  ruin,  Satan  returned  back  again  Into  hell,  and 
regntering  his  splendid  palace  of  Pandemonium,  mounted 
his  lofty  and  regal  throne  of  state,  there  to  receive  the 
applause  and  congratulations  of  the  subject  fallen 
angels  upon  the  successful  result  of  his  enterprise.  But 
to  his  amazement,  Instead  of  applause  there  came  to  hla 
ears  no  sound  save  that  of  hisses  alone.  He  looked 
about  him  for  a  time  to  learn  the  cause;  but  It  scon  be- 
came apparent.  The  truth  was  that  the  curse 
of  God  had  fallen  upon  him  and  them,  at  that 
Instant  of  his  triumph,  and  all  the  vast  and  brilliant 
assembly,  including  the  enthroned  Prince  of  Darkness 
himself,  fell  down,  hissing  serpents,  and  crawled  about 
the  floor  of  Hell  In  squirming  heaps.  [Applause.]  Sir, 
let  not  Mr.  Greeley  entertain  the  idea  that  he  can  step 
down  and  grasp  this  moribund  Democracy,  this  expiring 
party  of  madness,  of  malice  and  reaction,  groping  as  it  is 
In  the  murky  atmosphere  of  self-delusion,  or  gasping  iu 
the  fumes  of  bigotry  and  prejudice,  and  lift  It  up  Into  the 
free  and  pure  empyrean  of  patriotism  and  Republican 
love  of  country:  for  in  that  he  will  surely  fail. 

So  far  from  being  able  to  elevate  their  new  associates 
to  the  lofty  zenith  of  Republican  purity,  these  gentlemen 
will  find  themselves  pulled  down  from  their  high  estate, 
changed  in  nature  and  mixed  In  form,  and  crawling 
about  the  dark  and  slimy  pit  of  the  Democratic  limbo,  In 
wriggling,  writhing  and  unrecognizable  colls.  [Pro- 
longed applause.]  Sir,  after  careful  and  mature  reflec- 
tion I  can  see  nothing  In  this  movement  but 

A  Mean  and  Selfish    Squabble   for   rlace  and 
Power; 

A  grasping  after  spoils  wholly  unworthy  of  the  grand 
history  and  noble  traditions  of  the  party  to  which  we  be- 
long. The  Republican  party,  sir,  was  called  Into  exist- 
ence for  a  higher  purpose  tnan  that  of  putting  any  man 
or  set  of  men  Into  office;  and  we  owe  It  to  ourselves  and 
to  the  Republican  party  to  carry  out  Its  higher  purposes 
and  designs. 

We  owe  it  to  the  Republican  party,  we  owe  It  to  our 
beloved  country,  that  has  received  and  still  needs  the 
strength  and  support  of  this  great  party  of  freedom,  that 
we  stand  firmly  by  Us  principles  and  prevent  the  organi- 
zation from  being  destroyed  In  the  Interest  of  individual 
selfishness  or  personal  desire  for  gain.  I  cannot  under- 
take to  answer  the  objections  of  these  gentlemen 
who  have  resolved  from  the  first  to  carp  and  object 
and  to  cavil  to  the  final  end  without  reason  and  without 
sincerity;  and  I  shall  not  try.  I  shall  devote  myself  while 
talking  with  you  this  evening  to  the  task,  not  of  answer- 
Ing  the  objections,  but  of  re-stating  the  case  as  It  stand* 
before  the  country  to-day.  I  propose  to  go  over  the 
ground  again,  lest  tb°se  men  mislead  you  with  false  Issues, 
lest  the  ancient  land-mark-  of  right  and  wrong  be  shifted 
away  in  the  night  time  and  yon  be  deceived  as  to  how 
they  stood.  I  propose  to  examine 


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Thl«   Democratic   Party,    It«  HUtory  and  lt» 
Policy. 

This  Democratic  party  which  the  Liberal  Republicans  In 
the  abounding  plenitude  of  their  liberality  desire  to  again 
bring  forward  and  entrust  with  the  destinies  of  this  na- 
tion its  liberties  and  its  honor.  And  I  propose  to  inquire 
into  the  Justness  of  this  act,  and  the  appropriateness  of 
it  by  contrasting  Its  history  with  that  of  our  own,  and 
by  contrasting  It  with  that  which  It  should  have  been. 

There  was  a  time  in  the  history  of  this  nation 
when  the  Democratic  party  and  African  slavery  were 
not  political  partners.  But  that  tiiae,  sir,  is  so  long 
gone  that  it  antedates  the  recollection  of  any  of  us,  and 
it  Is  only  by  historical  research  that  we  ascertain  the 
fact  They  have  been  bound  together  by  the  same  um- 
bilical cord,  like  another  pair  of  political  Siamese  Twins, 
as  long  as  any  of  us  have  known  them.  But  a  little  re- 
search into  the  archives  of  the  political  past  elicits  the 
fact  that  they  are  twins  only  by  adoption;  It  elicits  the 
fact  that  they  entered  Into  a  voluntary  copartnership  for 
mutual  advantage  and  benefit,  the  object  on  one  side 
being  that  of  power,  and  upon  the  other  that  of  plunder. 

Tammany   Hall   Sold    the    Democrat*   to   the 
Sonth, 

And  the  transaction  was  a  most  beneficial  one  to  both 
parties-  for  each  one  obtained  that  which  it  most  needed. 
The  South  obtained  all  it  bargained  for  in  the  way  of  an 
enormous  amount  of  political  power;  and  Tammany  got 
all  It  wanted  in  the  way  of  official  and  financial  plunder, 
r  Applause.]  But,  sir,  whatever  may  have  been  the  facts 
of  the  transaction— whatever  may  have  been  the  motive 
in  which  the  negotiations  were  conducted,  we  know  as  a 
fact— and  that  is  within  the  memory  of  the  most  of  us 
here  present— that  the  inordinate 

Preten»lon»  of  Slavery 

Dated  from  Its  alliance  and  its  copartnership  with  the 
Democracy.  Until  it  obtaine'd  the  aid  and  continuance  and 
the  support  of  the  Democratic  party,  African  slavery 
was  modest  and  unassuming  enough.  It  had  few 
partisans.  Indeed,  the  men  among  whom  it  existed 
confessed  It  to  be  an  evil,  and  no  man  had  the  hardihood 
to  claim  for  it  anything  more  than  the  barest  of  tolera- 
tion. But  under  and  by  virtue  of  this  conspiracy,  of  its 
copartnership  with  the  Democracy,  it  was  enabled,  as  I 
say  to  gain  all  It  bargained  for  In  that  abominable  com- 
pact and  to  seize  in  a  very  short  time  the  reins  of 
Government.  It  made  Northern-born  Presidents  become 
its  veriest  tools  and  instruments;  it  made  the  National 
Congress  fall  down  before  It,  with  face  in  the  dust,  and 
worship  By  virtue  of  that  contract,  it  dragged  its  vic- 
tims back  to  the  torture,  from  the  free  land  beyond  the 
Ohio  and  the  Hudson.  New  England  heard  the  crack 
of  the  slave-drivers'  whip,  while  the  farmer  upan  the 
peaceful  shores  of  Lake  Ontario  was  startled  from  his 
slumbers  at  night  by  the  hurried  footsteps  of  the  fugi- 
tive flying  before  the  vindictive  minions  of  the  law. 

But  this  was  not  all.  By  that  compact  made  with  the 
Democracy,  slavery  was  enabled  to  seize  upon  that  tri- 
bunal which,  from  its  lofty  position,  had  ever  been 
deemed  the  last  and  the  secure  refuge  of  the  citizen  in  a 
struggle  for  his  personal  rights  and  liberty.  It  invaded 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  and  there,  from 
the  sacred  seat  of  Marshall,  cast  over  the  minds  and  con- 
sciences of  the  people 

The  Horrible  Incantation  of  a  Pretended  lie 
gallty, 

Which,  if  it  had  been  permitted  to  stand,  would  have 
crushed  out  and  destroyed  the  last  vestige  of  the  lib- 
erty for  which  our  forefathers  fought  and  died.  [Great 
applause.]  You  may  well  say  that  the  Democratic  party 
did  perform  its  part  of  the  contract,  for  by  its  act  the  soil 
of  this  land  was  devoted  to  slavery  almost  from  end  to 
end  There  was  scarcely  any  spot  left  to  freedom 
In  the  place  dearest  to  liberty,  where  the  soil  is  stll 
reeking  with  patriot's  gore,  even  "at  the  base  of  Bunker 
Hill  Monument  will  I  call  the  roll  of  my  slaves,  and  the 
Constitution  of  the  United  States  shall  be  my  warrant  of 
authority."  This,  sir,  was  the  arrogant  boast  of  one 
of  freedom's  foes;  and  It  is  a  melancholy  fact  that  he 


could  have  don*  It.  And  It  is  indisputable  that  slavery  did 
bid  defiance  alike  to  the  sentiments  and  the  statutes  of 
reedom,  when  only  by  virtue  of  its  conspiracy  and  1U 
bond  with  the  Democratic  party  it  could  have  been  safely 
done.  Sir,  the  Democratic  party  took  control  of  the  des- 
,lnles  of  this  nation  at  a  moment  when  all  the  world  be- 
side was  making  a  forward  movement  In  the  direction  of 
a  larger  and  broader  civil  and  political  liberty.  It  held 
control  until  slavery  had  been  made  the  corner-stone  of 
our  national  structure,  the  be  all  and  end  all  of  American 
aspirations,  until  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States 
lad  declared  from  the  bench  that  four  millions  of  men  and 
women  born  upon  the  soil  were  mere  personal  chattels 
ike  beasts  of  the  plow,  and  that  the  other  twenty  mll- 
ions  of  people  under  its  Jurisdiction  could  stand  by 
and  hear  without  a  blush  of  shame,  the  abomlnabla 
decree.  It  took  ofllce  at  a  time  when  the  principles  of 
universal  education  were  making  a  step  forward  in  th« 
North,  in  England,  in  Prussia,  and  all  over  the 
civilized  portion  of  the  world;  and  It  held  on  until 
twenty  States  of  this  Union  there  were  no  common 
schools,  and  until  within  fifteen  of  them  It  was  a  crime, 
punishable  by  imprisonment  and  degradation,  to  teach 
.ittle  children  the  letters  of  the  alphabet. 

Democracy  the  Governing  Power. 
For  fifty  years  prior  to  1860  the  Democratic  party 
was  the  supreme  governing  power  of  this  land.  This 
great  Republic  was  Its  realm  and  dominion  as  abso- 
lutely and  entirely  as  the  empire  of  Russia  is  the  realm 
of  the  Czar.  No  party  in  a  free  land  was  evtr  so  trusted 
no  party  ever  proved  so  false  to  its  trust.  And  yet,  aftei 
all,  as  I  said  before,  It  was  true  to  Its  compact  with 
slavery.  Had  the  Democratic  party  been  as  faithful  to 
the  whole  Republic  as  it  was  faithful  to  a  portion  of  it, 
had  it  been  as  true  to  the  Union  as  it  was  to  the  South, 
it  would  have  deserved  to  have  had  its  name  graven  on 
plates  of  brass.  [Applause.  [ 

But  the  slave  power  declared  war  upon  the  Republic, 
and  put  forth  all  of   Its  forces  to  dismember  the  Union, 
to  break  up  the  Government,  and  at  the  command  of 
its  masters 
The   Democratic   Party   Marched    Into  Trea. 

son'*  Camp 

And  reported  Itself  for  service.  It  is  true  that 
while  It  brought  with  It  all  the  party  banners 
and  field  machinery,  and  all  the  pomp  and  circum- 
stance of  party  warfare,  it  did  not  bring  with  it  all  of  its 
forces,  for  this  it  could  not  do.  There  were  many  good 
and  true  men,  many  patriots,  many  men  who  loved  their 
country,  still  in  the  Democratic  party;  and  before  the 
organization  could  be  made  to  march  to  the  music  of 
treason,  these  men  had  to  ba  sloughed  out  altogether. 
And  on  the  firing  of  the  first  gun  at  the  old  flag,  at 
Fort  Sumter,  a  great  host  of  the  Democratic  party 
scorned  to  follow  such  treasonable  leadership,  broke 
ranks  and  marched  into  the  Republican  camp.  [Great 
applause.]  The  Republican  party  drew  to  itself  all  of 
the  healthy  blood  which  was  animated  by 
The  Spirit  of  Patriotism  and  national  AfTee- 

tlon 

Which  was  in  the  Democratic  party;  and  it  needed  it 
all  to  enable  it  to  combat  the  poisonous  virus 
that  was  left  behind.  For  the  work  that  lay  before  th< 
Republican  party  was  the  most  tremendous  In  character 
that  ever  met  a  new  party  at  the  threshold  of  duty.  It 
had  to  undo  all  that  had  been  done  by  the  Democratic 
party  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  A  great  and  civilized 
nation  was 

Drifting  Into  BarbarUm. 

Free  institutions,  which  had  been  the  pride  and  hope  of 
liberty-lovers  throughout  the  earth,  were  degenerating 
into  a  slave  oligarchy;  and  this  drift  had  to  be  checked, 
and  the  course  turned  In  an  opposite  direction.  A  band 
of  wanton  conspirators  had  substantially  dissolved  th« 
Union  and  set  up  a  hostile  Government  within  its  limlti. 
This  latter  had  to  be  pulled  down  and  the  authority  ot 
the  laws  restored.  And  deeper  than  all  of  this,  sir;  th 
causes  which  had  led  to  this  disaster  had  to  be  searched 
for  with  care,  and  eradicated  with  firmness  and  vigor. 
And  all  of  this  had  to  be  done  in  the  fa«e  of  »  tremen- 


doos  armed  opposition — In  the  teeth  of  a  mighty  military 
establishment,  led  by  the  beat  talent  and  most  thorough 
scholarship  of  West  Point,  while  In  the  rear  the  Demo- 
cratic party  lay  In  ambush,  ready  (or  secret  thrust  and 
covert  stab. 

But,  sir,  the  Republican  party,  as  I  said  before,  accepted 
with  grand  and  lofty  courage  this  solemn  duty  and 
entered  hopefully  and  cheerfully  upon  the  task.  The 
Democratic  position  was  as  speedily  chosen,  and 
worked  up  to  with  equal  zeal  and  tenacity  of  purpose. 
That  party  declared  In  secret  session — and  In  open 
convention,  for  that  matter — held  In  every  capital  and  in 
every  county  seat  throughout  the  land,  substantially,  that 
it  would  maintain  its  ancient  rule,  that  it  would  stand  by 
the  South  In  its  pretended  right  to  break  up  the  union  of 
States  and  would  stand  by  and  sustain  the  Institution  of 
•lavery. 

The  loyal  element  of  the  country,  now  thoroughly  and 
completely  united  in  the  Republican  party,  had  but  little 
time  Indeed  to  consider  over  its  course. 

The  Horrid  Howl  of  War 

Was  at  our  very  doors  and  the  Government  had  to  meet 
and  to  put  It  down.  The  traitors  of  the  Democratic 
administration  had  scattered  the  little  Army  of  th<;  Repub- 
lic to  the  remotest  parts,  far  away  from  the  scenes  of 
Intended  operation.  The  guns  and  ammunition,  and 
as  far  as  possible,  all  the  apparatus  of  war  belonging 
to  the  Government  had  been  sent  away  to  the  South. 
New  armies  had  to  be  organized — created,  for  that  matter. 
And  these  armies  lacked  the  weapons  and  stores  of 
warfare,  so  that  new  implement*  had  to  be  purchased  or 
manufactured,  and  Immense  supplies  had  to 
b«  gathered  for  the  contest.  And  for  this 
purpose  vast  sums  of  money  had  to  be  raised — 
nobody  knew  where.  To  do  these  things  became  the 
Herculean  task  of  the  Republican  party.  To  prevent  their 
being  done  was  the  mischievous  work  of  the  Democracy. 
T«  save  the  country,  its  honor,  its  liberty,  1U  glorious 
traditions,  occupied  the  attention  of  Republican  states- 
men by  day  and  by  night.  To  save  slavery  and  aid  the 
Rebellion  became  the  mischievous  rOle  of  the  Democracy. 

Kepabllean   Leaders    Hackled  On  the    Sword 

And  went  forth  to  battle  for  their  country,  while  promi- 
nent Democrats  resigned  their  places,  wherever  they  held 
them,  and  went  South  to  join  the  armies  of  the  Rebellion. 
Senators  and  Congressmen  were  alone  the  exception  to 
this  rule.  These  men  stayed,  well  knowing  that  they 
eould  do  more  to  aid  the  Rebellion  by  staying  behind  to 
hamper  the  efforts  of  loyal  representatives,  and  tie  the 
hands  of  the  Government,  than  they  could  accomplish 
by  joining  the  Army  of  the  Confederacy,  and  shooting 
their  countrymen  In  the  open  field. 

California  Secesdonlttt. 

Of  the  Democratic  administration  In  power  In  Califor- 
nia at  the  time  the  war  broke  out,  almost  every  man,  I 
believe  I  may  almost  say  every  man,  contributed  in  some 
way  toward  aiding  the  Rebellion.  The  Chief  Justice  of 
the  State,  who  had  recently  resigned  for  the  purpose  of 
shooting  a  loyal  Senator,  went  away  and  became  a  Briga- 
dier in  the  Rebel  Army.  The  Controller  of  our  State  re- 
signed, and  went  and  fought,  I  have  no  doubt  valiantly 
enough  In  the  South.  The  Survey  or- General  became 
*  rebel  Colonel,  and  I  believe  was  made  pris- 
oner with  Morgan  in  the  State  of  Ohio.  The 
Speaker  of  the  Assembly  took  up  arms  and  foueht  for  the 
South.  The  man  who  had  represented  the  people  of 
this  State  In  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  as  Senator 
almost  from  the  time  of  Its  admission  Into  the  Union,  be- 
ing too  old  and  decrepld  to  bear  arms,  set  about  the  more 
congenial  occupation  of  a  secret  diplomatist  with  the  pur- 
pose of  embroiling  us  in  a  war  with  foreign  powers.  And 
that  venerable  gentleman,  I  have  no  doubt,  is  to-night 

•baking     Hand.     Aero**    the   Bloody    Chasm 

With  Horace  Greeley.  [Laughter  and  applause.]  As  he 
snrely  ought  to  be  so  occupied,  as  a  fair  repre- 
sentative of  that  party.  He,  in  company  with  the 
great  Majority  of  these  gallant  and  warlike  gentlemen, 
returned  to  our  coast  and  State  as  soon  as  their 
beloved  cause  was  lost;  and  as  a  rule,  I  believe,  they  have 
been  rewarded  for  their  unquestioned  loyalty  to  their 
party  by  being  again  placed  la  office.  Governor  Halght 


hag  appointed  them  by  scores;  Mid  1  Believe  a  very  con- 
siderable number  of  them  to-day  hold  offices  In  the  vari- 
ous municipal  departments  of  the  government  of  our 
city  and  county.  I  do  not  say  that  these  gentleman  do 
not  make  good  officers;  I  do  not  say  that  they 
do  not  make  the  very  best  of  officers.  And  I  do  not 
wish  to  be  now  understood  as  complaining  because  they 
hold  offices,  or  making  an  attack  on  that  account  upon 
those  who  have  appointed  them  to  fill  these  offices.  It 
appears  to  me  entirely  logical  and  correct  and  reasonable 
that  this  party  should  put  these  men  ID  office  who  have 
shown  their  faith  by  their  works.  [Applause  and  laugh- 
ter.] I  only  point  to  the  fact  for  the  purpose  of  demon- 
strating to  you  as  clearly  as  possible  what  was 
the  position  of  the  Democratic  party  during  the  war,  and 
that  it  has  ever  been  In  sympathy  with  disunion  and  tha 
Southern  cause.  And  when  that  cause  was  lost,  that 
party  still  remained  true  to  Its  ancient  faith  and 
pledges. 

This  war  was  a  long  and  bloody  one,  as  yon  all 
recollect,  and  at  times  the  result  was  doubtful.  But  the 
doubtful  character  of  the  result  was  rendered  so  by 
the  conduct  of  the  Democratic  party  alone.  It  was  the 
Democracy,  It  was  Copperheadlsm,  as  we  then  called  it, 
that  encouraged  the  South  to  maintain  the 
struggle  for  two  whole  years  after  It  was  plainly  lost, 
In  the  opinion  of  the  rest  of  the  world. 

It  Was  That  Same  Copperheadlsm 
That  throughout  the  war  exulted  over  rebel  victories 
and  mourned  over  rebel  disasters.  It  was  that  same 
Copperheadlsm  that  Instigated  murderous  riots  and  put 
the  torch  in  the  hands  ot  a  New  York  mob.  It  was  that 
name  Copperheadlsm  that  Inspired  Brick  Pomeroy  to  heap 
contumely  and  the  foulest  abuse  upon  the  best  and 
purest  of  our  statesmen,  only  because  they  were  engaged 
In  defending  their  country.  It  was  that  same  Copper- 
headism  that  deluged  the  land  with  the  most  absurd 
and  monstrous  inventions  about  unconstitutional  acts 
and  arbitrary  arrests.  Sir,  the  fifteen  hundred 
millions  of  dollars  expended,  and  the  one  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  lives  sacrificed  during  the  last 
two  years  of  the  war  —  every  dollar  of  that  money 
and  every  drop  of  that  blood — can  be  traced  directly  to 
the  door  of  that  miserable  fag  end  of  the  Democracy  that 
stayed  at  home,  misleading  the  Seuth  by  means  of  pre- 
tended and  vain  hopes  that  never  could  be  fulfilled — 
tying  the  hands  of  the  Government,  crippling  its  actions, 
and  stabbing  our  soldiers  in  the  back. 

There  is  another  part  of  Democratic  history  into  the 
details  of  which  I  would  fain  go  more  at  length  than  I 
shall  be  able  to  to-night.  I  refer  to  the  special  and 
peculiar  details  of 

The  Civil  Straggle 

That  for  four  terrible  years  surged  over  this  land,  deluging 
its  soil  with  blood  and  charging  the  air  with  the 
despairing  wall  of  widows  and  orphans.  That  war  waa 
the  direct  and  natural  consequence  of  Democratic  policy. 
And  Its  discussion  is  entirely  appropriate  in  any  discourse 
pretending  to  criticise  the  history  of  that  organization. 

It  might  be  claimed  that  out  of  consideration  (or  the 
naturally  tender-heartedness  of  their  newly  found  Repub- 
lican allies,  this  portion  of  the  record  might  be  omitted 
from  our  view. 

These  Zaberal  Kepabllean* 

Have  probably  not  yet  got  accustomed  to  the  associations 
of  their  recently  made  political  acquaintances  and  friend*. 
I  Another  year,  and  I  have  no  doubt  they  will  stand  up  and 
take  punishment  Just  like  old  buffers.  I  do  not  consider 
it  necessary  to  go  very  deeply  Into  this  portion  of  the 
record.  For  I  have  demonstrated,  if  I  have  demonstrated 
anything,  that  during  the  war  that  party  conducted  itself 
In  a  manner  unworthy  the  name  of  a  great  national  organ- 
ization. By  Its  treason  t«  Justice  and  right  it  encouraged  the 
South  to  bring  on  the  struggle,  and  then  Joined  with  It 
In  its  effort  to  destroy  the  Union.  And  I  propose  now, 
In  conclusion,  to  Inquire  what  It  has  done  since  that 
majestic  uprising  of  the  people  in  support  of  the  Republi- 
can administration  of  Abraham  Lincoln  to  put  down  a 
wicked  conspiracy?  [Applause.]  I  propose  to  Inquire 

How  They  Have  t'»nduct«d  ThemselTesf 
Has  that  party  done  anything  since  that  time  to  entitle 
it  to  the  confidence  of  the  people  T    Hare  they  seem  UM 


«r»r  of  their  ways  ?  Have  they;  repented  of  the  Ur- 
rlble  mischief  they  brought  upon  thli  land  ?  [A  voice 

jj0  n      HM  the  party  most  responsible  In  the  con- 

iplracy  been  brought   to  a    comprehensive   view  of  Its 

^  They  *have  fought  step  by  step  every  effort  made  to 
Vlace  the  organic  law  of  this  land  upon  a  broad  and  firm 
republican  basis.  They  have  fought  every  Inch  of  pro- 
gress In  this  direction.  And  they  are  now  engaged  In  a 
era sade  against  education,  which  they  will  keep  np  until 
It  destroys  and  annihilates  them. 

During  the  course  of  that  war,  there  was  perhaps  no 
4,114  point  that  Indicated  so  fully  the  complete  Democrat 
as  the  disposition  to  traduce,  to  vllllfy,  to  libel  every 
man  engaged  In  putting  down  the  rebellion  In  the  most 
remote  degree.  In  fact,  you  could  always  know  a 
Democrat  by  his  opinion  of  iuch  men  as '.Lincoln, 
1  those  engaged  with  him  In  the  glorious 
work  There  was  no  language  too  coarse,  no  Ideas 
too  harsh,  no  criticism  too  cutting  for  a  Democrat  to  heap 
«pon  the  hero  and  martyr,  Abraham  Lincoln.  Sir,  has 
that  spirit  changed?  Has  there  any  change  come  over 
Uat  organization  in  this  respect?  If  it  is  so,  I  have  not 
discovered  it.  The  same  spirit  that  enabled  Brick  Pome- 
roy  to  amass  a  fortune  of  half  a  million  of  dollars  by 
heaping  his  abominable  libels  upon  the  head  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  the  best  and  purest  of  Presidents,  because  he 
did  his  duty,  still  exists  to-day,  and  evinces  Itself  by 
ilmllar  efforts  to  destroy  the  standing  and  poison  the 
reputation  of  that  other  man  who  has  struck  the  cohorts 
of  treason  such  telling  blows  so  often,  a  man  who  stood 
next  to  Lincoln,  and  whose  name  Is  TJlysees  8.  Grant. 
Sir  they  hated  Grant,  and  they  hate  him  still.  They 
hate  him  as  they  hated  Lincoln.  They  hate  him  worse 
than  they  hated  Lincoln  because  he  has  struck  them 
fcarder  blows.  [Applause.]  1'hey  hated  him  for  Fort 
Donelson.  They  hate  him  for  Ylcksburg.  They  hate 
him  for  Chlckamanga  and  Klchmond  and  Appomattox 
Court  House.  They  hate  him  with  a  concentrated  hatred 

They  Hate  Kim 

Vor  his  triumphs  over  Lee,  and  Stonewall  Jackson  and 
the  Rebel  army.  And  this  hatred  Is  a  legitimate  part  of 
the  emotions  and  sentiments  of  the  old  Democratic  party. 
And  they  have  sworn  vengeanc  on  the  man  who  beat 
them  in  the  field,  and  by  the  strength  of  his  influence 
and  popularity  at  the  ballot-box.  The  Democratic  party 
lives  for  vengeance  and  plunder— for  vengeance  upon 
Grant,  who  beat  tham,  and  plunder  upon  the  American 
neople,  who  refuse  to  sympathise  with  them.  Bat  the 
sentiments  and  designs  and  efforts  of  the  Democratic 
narty  would  have  little  promise  of  dangerous  exhibition 
to  a  party  success  If  it  were  not  for  the  assured  alliance 
of  what  are  now  known  as  Liberal  Kepubllcans.  I  find 
amongst  these  gentlemen  who  claim  that  they  are  going 
to  vote  for  Greeley 

A.  Great  »Iver»lty  of  Opinion 
On  the  grounds  upon  which  they  intend  to  take  their 
action  Quite  a  number  of  them  believe,  or  affect  to  be- 
lieve that  there  should  be  a  change  of  administration 
for  the  purpose  of  bringing  about  certain  improvements 
In  the  Government.  These  gentlemen  say  that  they  are 
in  favor  of  Civil  Service  Reform.  They  would  have  hon- 
est men  in  office;  and  for  the  purpose  of  bringing  that 
about,  they  think  that  this  small  baud  of  disaffected 
Bepubllcans  who  go  with  the  backers  and  friends  and 
confederates  of  Tammany  Hall,  who  can  alone  put 
this  reform  into  operation.  They  would  have  an 
Improved  revenue  system,  and  they  think  the  decayed 
and  starved  out  officials  of  the  Buchanan  Administra- 
tion are  the  men  to  put  that  going.  They  would  have 
the  finances  of  the  country  put  on  a  healthy  basis,  as 
they  say  and  they  would  invoke  the  aid  of  Belmont, 
the  corruptionlst,  and  Pendleton,  the  repudlator,  for  the 
purpose.  No,  gentlemen.  You  Liberal  Republicans 
will  be  misled  if  you  fellow  in  this  wake.  You  will 
find  that  your  leaders  prove  to  be  different  from  their 
professions.  You  will  find  that  they  have  been  using 
the  language  of  professed  reform  for  their  own  benefit; 
and  you  will  discover,  perhaps  too  late,  that  you  have  been 
a«tlng  for  the  benefit  of  a  band  of  desperate  adventurers, 
who  can  •«•  no  other  mode  of  acquiring  and  holding 
tgltt  tfcan  through  U«  Kh*m«  which  they  now  har«  in 


hand  and  to  which  they  ask  you   to  contribute.    The 
case  of  Mr.  Carl  Schurt  Is  one  which  comes  to  my  mind 
at  this  moment.    Mr.  Carl  Schurx  is  a  Senator  from  the 
State  of   Missouri;  and  of  course   his  term  of  offlc 
drawing  to  a  close.    You  must  know  that  the  most  abso- 
olute  Democratic  State  In  the  Union  Is  Missouri.     [Ap- 
plause.]    Price's  boys  hold  the  balance  of  power  In  Mis 
sour!     And  In  order  to  hold  his  office  in  the  Senate,  Carl 
Schurz   must  get  their  votes;    and  yon,  gentlemen,  an 
asked  to  come  and  help  him  do  it  gracefully.    Sir,  agalnsi 
this  I  protest  with  all  the  power  of  my  nature,  because 
Missouri,  with  her  horde  of  unreconstructed  Rebels,  ha* 
become    hopelessly  Democratic  —  Mr.  Schurz  is  to  b» 
allowed  to  break  up  the  party  that  has  brought  him  into 
renown  and  given  him  high  place  and  honors,  and  so  b« 
saved  the  disgrace  of  openly  deserting  it.      Now  in  th 
name  of  all  that  is  grand  and  glorious  in  the  records  of  th« 
party,  I  protest  against  this  proposition.    In  the  name  ol 
the  dead  Lincoln  and  in  the  name  of  the  noble  army  of 
martyrs  who  have  watered  the  soli  of  every  Southern 
State  with  their  blood,  I  protest  against  this  movement 
as    a     base    and     cowardly    subterfuge    unworthy    or 
honorable  men.     If  Mr.  Schurz  wants  the  votes  of  the 
Democratic  party  in  order  to  keep  his  position  in  the 
United   States  Senate,  as  no  doubt  he  does,  he   should 
adopt  the  course  pursued  by  his  colleague,   Mr.  Blair. 
Let  him  do  it  like  a  gentleman,  and  not  defile  the  bed  In 
which   he   has  been   so  long   sleeping.      [Laughter  and 

'PI  flnT'another  class  of  these  gentlemen  who  have  a 
great  deal  to  say  about  bridging  over  the  bloody  chasm. 
They  want  a  restoration  of  good  fellowship.  They  want 
a  revival  of  good  feeling  throughout  the  land.  They 
want 

The  Dead  font  to  be  Bead  and  Gone. 
Now  that  is  all  very  well,  and  I  believe  as  much  In  it 
as  these  gentlemen  can.  I  am  as  willing  to  bridge  over 
the  bloody  chasm  as  anybody,  but  I  am  very  particular 
as  to  who  shall  cross  over  that  bridge;  whether  we  shall 
go  over  to  them  or  they  shall  come  over  to  u§.  That 
makes  a  great  deal  of  difference.  I  find  many  of  these 
gentlemen,  however,  who,  in  their  anxiety  to  bring  about 
a  reconciliation,  habitually  pass  high  encomiums  upon 
the  Rebel  leaders,  especially  upon  General  Lee  and  Stone- 
wall Jackson,  for  their  bravery  in  the  field,  and  their 
virtues  in  their  private  life.  And  some  of  them,  I  k 
take  great  credit  to  themselves  from  the  fact  that  they 
are  fellow  countrymen  with  these  worthies,  and,  there- 
fore to  a  certain  extent  sharers  In  their  glory.  Now, 
while  I  have  no  fault  to  find  with  this,  and  while  I  c 
fess  it  Is  desirable  on  every  account  to  bring  about 
a  reconciliation,  yet,  in  my  Judgment  under  these  cir- 
cumstances, this  is  calculated  to  do  harm  in  creating 
a  confused  idea  as  to  the  right  and  wrong  of  the  case. 
I  am  willing  to  have  a  reconciliation;  but  not  by  having 
the  right  bow  down  to  the  wrong,  but  by  having  the 
wrong  come  forward  and  confess  to  the  right.  [Ap- 
plause.] 

The  View*  of  the  Speaker  on  the  Subject. 
And  right  here  briefly  I  propose  to  state  my  views 
upon  this  case;  and  I  state  them  as  a  representative  Re- 
Bublican,  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  every  Republican 
here  will  agree  with  me  that  I  state  fairly  the  position  of 
the  party  upon  this  question.  I  have  never  been  in  favor 
of  having  anybody  punished  for  any  part  in  the  late  Re- 
bellion I  have  never  been  in  favor  of  punishing  any- 
body for  the  Rebellion;  I  have  never  thought  that  any- 
body ought  to  have  been  punished  for  it.  Not  only  am  I 
opposed  to  hanging  Jeff  Davis,  but  I  have  said 
a  thousand  times  that  I  would  not  hold  him  prisoner  or 
harm  a  hair  of  his  head.  I  would  have  them  all  live 
for  a  century,  if  such  a  thing  were  possible,  for  1 
think  it  would  be  punishment  enough  for  them  to  wl 
ness  the  growing  scorn  and  condemnation  that  must 
come  upon  Jeff.  Davit*  and  every  one  of  them,  as  fresh 
generations  of  freemen  rise  and  develop  a  higher  and 
nobler  civilization  than  that  which  they  were  willing  to 
have  imposed  upon  the  country  by  a  cruel  and  unneces- 
sary war.  That  war  was  perhaps  the  natural  result  of 
the  Irreconcilable  conflict  between  the  hostile  States  «f 
freedom  and  slavery.  And  of  the  existence  of  slavery  as 
a  syium  the  whole  eouMtry  is  equally  U  UaM*-ih» 


Verth  M  well  M  tbe  South.      It  wai  tbe  union  and  con- 
ettrrenoe  of  a  darg-selllnR  North    and   «    Blare-buying 
(tenth  that  fastened  tbe  custom    of  slave-dealing  and 
th«  existence    of   slavery  as  an  Institution    upon    tbe 
South.    And  all  you  can  say  about  It  is  that  one  was  not   i 
much  worse  than  the  other,  and  that  both  were  bad,   : 
selfish  and  wicked.    The  South  has  taught  Itself  to  be-   I 
Here,  and  has  been  taught  by  as  until  It  has  come  to   i 
believe,  as  fully  as  a  man  can  believe  In  anything  so   j 
abinrd,  that  slavery  Is  right.      And    sir.  If  slavery  wa*   • 
right,  then  the  South  was  right;    but,  sir,   slavery  was   | 
not  right,  and  it  cannot  be  made  right.      It  was  the  sum 
of  all  human  sins. 

It  was  the  Crime  of  Crime*, 

For  it  involved  In  itself  the  acme  of  all  other  crimes;  Just 
as  in  mathematics  the  greater  contains  the  lesser.  It  was 
a  crime  against  truth.  It  was  a  crime  against  right.  It 
was  a  crime  against  religion.  It  was  a  crime  against 
manhood  and  against  civilization.  It  divided  so- 
ciety in  the  middle,  and  drove  one  class  to  an  abject, 
groveling  and  beastly  servitude,  and  the  other  to  a 
supremacy  and  dominance  which  Inevitably  tended  to 
cruelty  and  bloodshed.  It  degraded  and  depraved  both 
master  and  servant.  And  to-day  it  is  impossible  to  tell, 
after  years  of  reflection,  which  race  -was  the  greater 
loser  by  this  monstrous  and  soul-destroying  system.  I 
can  see  a  thousand  reasons  why  Jefferson  Davis  should 
not  have  been  made  the  scapegoat  of  the  nation;  and 
while  Generals  Lee  and  Stonewall  Jackson  took  the 
field  and  led  armies  against  human  rights,  yet  in  excuse 
«f  them  it  can  truly  be  said  that  they  were  the  victims 
of  influences  for  which  twenty  millions  of  their  country- 
men were  as  much  to  blame  as  any  one  of  them. 

But,  sir,  when  It  comes  to  apotheosislng  these  men  and 
translating  them  to  the  pantheon  of  heroes,  when  it 
comes  to  teaching  our  American  youths  to  associate  their 
names  with  the  great  and  good,  the  virtuous,  the  noble 
of  all  times,  then  for  one  I  do  protest  that  you  are  going 
too  far.  I  do  protest  that  yon  are  going  to  construct 
and  set  this  bridge  over  the  bloody  chasm  at  too  great 
an  expense.  [Applause.] 

I  have  heard  some  of  these  gentlemen,  who  are  IB  the 
habit  ef  saying  that  the 

Republican     Party,    Having     Performed    It* 
Wort, 

Having  done  all  that  was  given  it  to  do,  having 
accomplished  its  mission — so  they  put  it — should  now  pass 
away  and  cease  to  exist.  But  it  seems  strange  to  us  that 
men  can  so  argue  upon  such  slight  grounds.  Let  us 
reason  upon  It.  For  a  great  political  party  to  pass  away 
and  give  up  its  organization,  there  must  be  a  cause  ;  and 
the  causes  capable  of  producing  such  a  result  will  be 
found,  upon  investigation,  to  resolve  themselves  into  two 
— one  or  the  other  must  be  the  true  one. 
Either  the  principles  upon  which  the  party  was  called  into  | 
existence  must  have  been  proven  to  be  wrong  and  false  ; 
and  dangerous  to  the  public  welfare,  so  that  honest  men,  ; 
upon  sober,  second  thought,  would  abandon  It.  Or  upon  \ 
the  other  hand,  they  must  have  been  provrn  to  b«  right,  i 
to  be  Just,  to  be  beneficial,  so  as  to  draw  to  the  party 
the  great  mass  of  the  nation,  and,  as  it  were,  drown  and  I 
submerge  it  in  a  vast  deluge  of  universal  concurrence. 
Where  all  men  see  but  one  way,  there  can  be  no  parties, 
and  all  political  organizations  must  fall  to  the  earth 
when  there  is  nothing  more  to  dispute  about.  I  must  be 
allowed  to  assume  that  there  is  no  Republican  here  who 
claims  that  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party  are  bad 
and  wrong  and  vicious  and  dangerous  to  the  public  welfare. 
And  I  will,  therefore,  address  myself  to  the  other  side  of 
the  question,  and  see  if  It  be  true  that  all  men  are  of  one 
way  of  thinking  upon  these  points,  and  if  the  Republican 
principles  are  so  universally  acquiesced  in  as  some  men 
would  have  us  believe.  The  Republican  party  was 
called  into  existence  as  yon  all  know  by  the  hostile  atti- 
tude and  the  menacing  spirit  of  African  slavery,  which 
threatened  to  break  up  and  destroy  the  last  vestige  of 
equality  between  citizens,  and  to  build  up  a  most 
hateful  caste,  distinction  and  despotism.  It  threatened 
to  overturn  the  very  principles  upon  which  the  Govern- 
ment of  this  nation  is  founded.  The  spread  of  African 
slavery  all  over  the  country  was  absolutely  threatened 
»y  th«  South.  The  Eepnbliean  party  took  iU  itud 


in  hostility  to  the  ilare  InUrett,  and  all  JU  «Mf  *•* 
auxiliaries — IU  bigotry,  its  prejudice,  its  enmity  U  edu- 
cation. The  principles  of  the  Republican  party  BUT  •* 
named  In  three  word*: 

Justice,  Education  and  Parity. 
Now,  sir,  I  confess  that  if  there  be  any  Bepnb- 
liean present  who,  after  sixteen  years  of  reflec- 
tion, has  come  to  the  honest  conviction  that  these 
principles  of  republicanism  are  wrong,  and  bad,  and 
vicious,  and  dangerous  to  the  public  welfare,  he  la  en- 
tirely right  In  saying  that  the  Republican  party  ought  to 
pass  away  and  be  no  more;  Indeed,  sir,  he  would  be 
nearer  right  if  he  would  say  it  never  ought  to  have  com- 
menced. But  I  shall  not  undertake  to  demonstrate  the 
advantages  of  Justice,  education  and  purity;  I  will  simply 
inquire,  as  I  said  before,  whether  they  have  been  uni- 
versally conceded.  That  is  the  point  here;  that  must  be 
shown  before  the  Bepublican  party  can  yield  and  pass 
away.  Now  I  confess  that  slavery  has  been  nominally 
abolished  by  a  Constitutional  amendment  to  that  effect. 
And  I  confess  that  it  is  perhaps  true — although  of  that  I 
am  not  quite  so  confident — that  no  Democrat  of  national 
reputation  has  denounced  that  amendment,  or  threatened 
to  take  up  arms  and  resist  its  enforcement  for  now  nearly 
a  whole  year.  [Great  laughter  and  applause.]  Bit,  sir, 
can  you  conscientiously  say  that  all  parties  In  this  land, 
with  one  common  and  universal  accord,  agree  !• 
extending  to  every  citizen,  whether  white  or  black,  the 
rights  of  a  man  ?  You  know  they  do  not  agree  to  any 
such  thing,  nor  to  anything  like  it.  Very  far  from  it, 
Indeed.  Is  there  not  at  this  very  moment  a  secret  organ- 
ization of  barbarous  conspirators,  who  prowl  about  por- 
tions of  this  Republic  in  tbe  night-time,  their  beastly 
faces  disguised  with  still  more  hideous  masks,  their 
bloodstained  hands  armed  with  bowie-knives,  with  blud- 
geons and  revolvers  ?  Who  go  about  dragging  peaceful 
men  and  women  from  their  beds,  Dealing  them  with 
clubs  and  wounding  them  with  knives,  terrifying  them 
into  abandoning  their  civil  rights,  and  even  compelling 
them  to  ratify  and  legalize  the  abominable  out- 
rage by  voting  the  Democratic  ticket  ?  Sir,  la  it 
not  true  that  at  this  moment  it  employs  a  larger  force  of 
the  troops  of  this  Republic  to  protect  the  colored  citlzena 
of  the  South  in  their  legal  rights,  imperfectly  as  it  doea 
protect  them,  than  it  does  to  keep  Black  Kettle,  Spotted 
Tall,  and  Red  Cloud  in  order,  or  Cochlse  and  his  mur- 
derous Apaches  from  scalping  the  women  and  children 
of  Arizona? 

And  yet  they  talk  about  the  .Republican  Part 
having  Finished  Its  Work. 

Why,  how  long  is  it  since  a  Democratic  Governor  of  Cali- 
fornia informed  tbe  people  of  this  State,  in  an  official 
document,  that  he  would  take  up  arms  and  resist  the  en- 
forcement of  any  law  in  which  black  men  had  so  much  a 
part  as  even  voting  for  the  Representatives  who  made  It. 
And  he  came  within  three  thousand  votes  of  being  re- 
elected  in  this  State.  So  much  for  the  still  living  spirit 
of  slavery. 

How  does  it  stand  with  education  ?  Has  it  been  uni- 
versally conceded  that  every  citizen  of  this  land  ia  en- 
titled to  an  education  and  must  have  it  ?  And  has  that 
principle  become  so  thoroughly  established  in  the  hearts 
of  the  people  that  the  Republican  party  need  no  longer 
watch  over  It  T  Why,  sir,  whatever  educational  means 
exist  in  this  land — and  God  knows  they  are  weak  enough 
— exist  by  and  through  tbe  Republican  party,  and  In 
spite  of  the  Democratic  party.  [Applause.] 
The  Bepublican  party  is  the  mother  of  com- 
mon schools  ;  and  for  it  to  leave  them 
would  be  like  the  abandonment  of  a  newly-born  babe. 
[Applause.]  Only  fancy  the  Democratic  party  having 
charge  of  our  public  school  system,  even  in  the  capacity  of 
a  step-mother!  [Laughter.]  Why,  it  would  be  like  putting 
a  young  lamb  to  suckle  with  a  she  wolf.  [Laughter.]  They 
would  not  wait  for  it  to  starve  to  death  in  a  natural  way; 
they  would  devour  it  on  the  spot.  [Laughter  and  ap- 
plause.] Sir,  education  is  the  nightmare  of  the  Democ- 
racy, and  they  never  will  consent  to  IU  existence,  for 
they  know  it  means  their  destruction.  [Applause.]  Who 
of  you  has  forgotten  the  Compulsory  Education  bill  last 
Winter  in  the  Senate  of  California;  beaten,  as  it  waa,  by  a 
strict  party  v«te — n»t  eoe  Bepublican  v»Uag  ag  alart  It, 


3705HO 


not  «M  Pwuowat  T.UDI  for  itT    [Applause.]    dan  ther* 
k«  a  clearer  test  case  made  than  that?    Surely  there 

••Mot. 

K«w  I  come  to  the  last  of  the  Republican  principles: 
Parity. 

Gentlemen,  I  am  not  her*  for  the  purpose  of  assuring 
yon  that  the  Republican  party  is  absolutely  pure.  For 
the  thing  is  Impossible,  until  society  improves  and  be- 
comes better  than  it  is.  When  I  speak  of  the  purity  of 
the  Republican  party,  I  only  speak  of  its  relative  purity. 
I  only  speak  of  the  purity  of  that  party  which 
contains  within  its  ranks  the  better  class,  the 
purer,  the  higher  minded,  the  more  patriotic 
portion  of  the  community,  as  against  those 
who  are  the  most  corrupt  and  the  most  unpatriotic. 
[Applause.]  I  speak  of  the  relative  purity  of  tbat  party. 
And,  sir,  the  Republican  party,  by  the  side  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  is  as  pure  as  the  unsullied  mantle 
of  snow  that  lies  upon  the  Sierras,  spotless  and 
untarnished.  [Tremenduous  applause.]  Has  hostility 
to  dishonesty  become  so  universal  that  we  can  again 
call  the  Democratic  ,party  to  power?  that  we  can 
entrust  that  organization  with  the  custody  of  the 
Treasuries  they  have  so  often  robbed?  Has  Tammany 
Hall  and  its  baleful,  corrupt  Influences  Inen  over- 
thrown so  long  or  so  effectually  that  we 
can  again  invite  to  power  the  party  that 
enabled  Tweed  and  Sweeney  to  plunder  by  the  tens  of 
millions  T  Is  the  party  that  gave  the  keys  of  the  Treasury 
of  the  City  of  New  York  to  those  gentlemen  and  held  the 
candle  for  them  or  stood  guard  outside  at  the  corner,  to 
give  warning  in  case  of  approach,  to  be  now  placed  In 
custody  of  the  funds  of  the  Government  of  the  United 
States,  so  that  instead  of  local  thieves  they  may  become 
national  ?  Do  the  bribers  of  New  York  Judges,  the  steal- 
ers  of  New  York  railroads,  the  corruptors  of  the  New 
York  City  government,  so  thoroughly  acquiesce  in 
the  teachings  of  education,  Justice  and  purity,  that  all 
the  Judges,  all  the  railroads,  all  the  governments, 
general  and  local,  throughout  the  land,  must  be 
turned  over  to  them  ?  How  long  an  abstinence  from 
the  devouring  of  lambs  must  be  practiced  by  the  most 
bloodthirsty  of  wolves  to  enable  them  to  demand  that  the 
shepherds  be  taken  away  from  the  flocks,  and  they  put  in 
possession  of  the  fold  ?  Surely  the  hungriest  of  wolves, 
ghould  he  be  applying  for  the  position  of  shepherd,  ought 
to  produce  a  certificate  that  he  has  not  put  teeth  in  mut- 
ton for  over  a  year — ought  he  not  ?  And  yet  in  less 
than  a  year  Boss  Tweed,  the  Prince  of  Democ- 
racy, the  grandest  of  them  all,  luxuriously  rolled  and 
wallowed  through  the  metropolis  of  this  nation,  too  pros- 
perous to  be  ill-natured,  too  well-fed  to  be  cynical,  the 
type  and  model  of  his  class,  secure  in  the  knowledge  that 
be  was  backed  np  by  that  grand  Democratic  party,  of 


which  h«  was  tk«  chieftain  leader  and  representative  man. 
He  made  and  unmade  Governor!,  Senators,  Judges  and 
Congressmen,  and  all  the  municipal  officers  from  Sheriff 
down  to  Constable.  And  when  his  houses  lined  every 
street,  when  his  equipages  rolled  through  every  square, 
when  the  plunder,  of  a  city  was  filling  his  chest* 
and  his  vaults,  when  corruption  was  dripping  from  his 
dishonest  hands,  and  the  public,  in  alarm  for  the  very 
beds  under  them,  thinking  the  roofs  were  being  re- 
moved from  their  houses,  began  to  make  some  sort  of 
inquiry,  this  man  turned  upon  them,  shoved  his  face  In 
theirs  with  a  leer  which  showed  what  opinion  he  held  of 
a  people  who  would  be  ruled  by  him,  and  said  "What  ar« 
you  going  to  do  about  It,  then,  s-a-y  ?  [Laughter.]  And 
nobody  has  answered  the  inquiry  so  made  yet. 

•Xfobody  Ancwera 

What  they  are  going  to  do  about  it,  say  ?  [Laughter.] 
Some  of  these  gentlemen  come  up  and  tell  you,  "Why, 
Tweed  has  been  indicted.  He  is  going  to  be  punished. 
They  are  going  to  try  them."  Do  they  know  who  they 
are  talking  about  ?  Do  they  know  who  this  Tweed  is 
tbat  they  talk  about  punishing  7  Do  they  know  that  his 
flunkeys  are  Governors;  that  his  servants  are  Judges;  that 
his  tools  are  Common  Council  men?  Do  they  talk  about 
punishing  him?  Why  there  is  only  one  mystery  in  hit 
whole  life  that  I  know  of,  and  that  is  why  he  allowed  old 
Greeley  to  have  this  nomination,  and  did  not  take  it  him- 
self. [Great  laughter  and  applause.]  I  suppose  ha 
thought  he  would  rather  be  Secretary  of  the  Treasury 
[laughter],  and  I  do  not  know  but  he  is  right. 
r«  I  do  not  pretend  to  say  that  the  Republican  party  must 
last  always,  for  this  I  know  it  cannot  do. 

IB  the  TnllneM  of  Tim*:  It  Mast  Fan  A  way 

As  all  things  must.  All  matters  of  this  world,  all  human 
creations  are  finite.  Everything  that  man  does  must 
end,  and  so  must'the  Republican  party.  But  not  yet.  [Ap- 
plause.] It  will  not  end  while  the  band  of  noble  heart* 
who  called  it  into  existence  continue  to  inhabit  the 
earth.  It  will  not  end  until  the  American  people  forget 
the  lessons  of  patriotism  that  have  been  transmitted  to 
them  by  generations  of  freemen.  It  will  not  be  until 
they  cease  to  deserve  the  noble  inheritance  that  came  to 
them  through  the  example  of  heroes  and  by  the  blood 
of  martyrs,  from  the  deeds  of  Washington  and  the  death 
of  Lincoln. 

Three  Times  Three 

Were  given  with  a  hearty  good  will,  as  the  speaker 
took  his  seat,  and  then  three  more  were  mado 
to  echo  from  the  walls  for  the  success  of  the 
candidates — Grant  and  Wilson.  The  multitude  dispersed 
with  enthusiastic  spirits  and  confidence  in  the  result  for 
which  all  were  working. 


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